Socialism will work if given enough time. Nobody knows how much time that is, because the weak from hunger people always quit trying too soon. This time will be different, there will be no famine because other people in working countries will provide food. We might have to stop wasting good corn making gasahol to provide that food, but that is the silver lining.

Odd story for you Boris. A number of years ago I was dating an unstable but sexually supercharged greek woman and living in downtown calgary. During that time I was introduced to her friend who looked like a morbidly obese sheepdog in drag who happened to drink so much it would make any proud eastern european blush. This woman apparently was Stephen Harper's main squeeze years back. I don't know if he has exceptionally bad taste, or he ruined her but I'd rather date a homeless man than that woman.

As a life long conservative I'm ashamed of my government. I'm not ashamed of Maple Syrup though.

They need to start lying like we do. Or if they are lying, lie harder. Pad stats. Make stuff up. Change the equation. Put a happy face on the complete and epic failure Socialism is and always has been.

Everyone who studies Socialism or has lived under it can tell you that it does not work. The problem is the people who advocate socilaism don't study it. They worship it. Data is cherry picked, problems swept under the rug and when a socialist country fails the old stand-by of "They were never REALLY A socialist country." starts being bandied about. Of course most advocated a mixed-economy. But Socialism is like a cancer. One cell is all it takes to eventually spread and choke off resources from the rest of the body. Weakening and eventually killing the host.

Blh blah all about how Socialism doesn't work. As though we are under Capitalism or something. We're under Socialism, just not the good kind. We're under the kind that gives the state's largesse to corporations and banks, not the actual people. At least France tries to give some to the actual people, we get the worst of all worlds.

You are mistaken. The people who advocate it never intend to live under it themselves. They are like the snake oil salesmen of politics. It's a big rip off. They get the power and money and you get a broken down 1950's Chevy.